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3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
  • Directors: Catherine Breillat
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Mar 2005
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006VYF1S
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,047 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and Gaspar Noe, Breillat has no problem displaying explicit material to her audience and forcing them to confront their own assumptions about the relations between men and women. In ANATOMY OF HELL, based on her own novel, she presents a largely allegorical scenario positing that all men are inherently fearful of female sexuality. A gay man (ex porn star Rocco Siffredi) prevents a woman (former Chanel and Gaultier model Amira Casar) from killing herself in a nightclub. Thrown together by this fated moment, she offers to pay him to watch her in the most intimate way--leading to a confrontational exploration of male and female psychology and misogyny. Never one to back down from the controversial, Catherine Breillat's explicit film ANATOMY OF HELL is perhaps the work that gets closest to her theoretical preoccupations.

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49 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING MOVIE, 25 Sep 2005
In order to appreciate this movie one must watch it in conjunction with director's interview (offered as a special feature on DVD). Here, the female middle-aged director explains how our views of sexuality and obscenity are socially constructed and subject to change through the course of human history. When I first watched this movie, I was shocked and found it highly obscene. However, watching the director's interview made me realize that what we consider obscene today might not be regarded obscene tomorrow. The meaning of obscenity changes and is influenced by social, political and economic circumstances. I consider this movie thought-provoking and challenging. It made me re-think what constitutes male and female sexuality and the complexity of the politics of gender. The part I found particularly shocking is the scene with menstrual blood. Why should women be ashamed of their fertile blood? Why is menstrual blood considered impure? Why do we find a sight of menstrual blood in a movie upsetting and obscene when we all know that it's perfectly natural and constitutes female anatomy? Menstruation should be celebrated as a sign of a healthy female body that is capable of conceving and giving life - not regarded as filthy, dirty and messy. Instead of classifying this movie as "sick" and "perverted" - I see it as highly imaginative, philosophical and very challenging.
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40 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Star 1 * Star 2 * Star 3 * Star 4 * Star 5 *, 25 Jan 2006
By Mist (Australia) - See all my reviews
I think that it is unwise to see the film if overly prejudiced by the suppositions and interpretations of others, especially when their attention only focuses on one aspect of the film i.e. the explicit shots or the menstrual blood scene. The movie is not simply about the visuals. This film is as much about words and ideology as the imagery is about fragility, beauty and censorship. The script is powerful and confronting and the dialogue is beautifully supported by the equally powerful visual aspects.
We become voyeurs on an exploration of myth, ideology, sexuality, and identity, going through as much of a revelation as the male lead does when personal ideology impacts with truth.
Breillat is hard hitting, and we feel the punches that she does not bother to pull. And why should she?
The audience becomes drawn into a complex world where the dialogue not only exists between the characters, but between the director and the audience, and in the final unreal sequence we realise that the message is already within us, whether transplanted or not.
Breillat ultimately reveals strengths to be weakness and weakness to be strength. Or is that merely prejudice?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unjustly Overlooked - Provoking - Beautiful, 1 Aug 2008
By Alex Beere "Alex" - See all my reviews
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This movie is a sexual holocaust, but I'm still a believer that such rites of dehumanization do have a place in modern cinema. Someone had to do it, and the fact that it is directed by a woman gives her free license to obliterate the preconceptions of femininity and its plethora of powers and weaknesses. It paints a stark picture of the behavioral patterns which we're forced to adhere to in our day-to-day lives and attacks them in a very blunt fashion. I love it. It's confronting and unrelenting.

The French have always known how to gut their audience, and this movie is something I look upon as a challenge. Initially I was set on edge, and its unrelenting subject matter and subsequent exploration of the anatomical mechanisms of sexuality is something which I found to challenge my previous views in many ways.

Amira Caser is immaculate in her role, her simple facial expressions portray the complexities of the vulnerable state she allows herself to be placed in throughout the most confronting scenes, with simple and subtle gestures of fear and excitement showing glimpses for all those who choose to absorb this film fully.

Perhaps the fact that this movie stars prominent porn actor Rocco could taint its subject to the general audience, but the role he fills demands than he be comfortable and confident in his expression of explicit sexual materials and for this reason I believe he is perfectly suited for the part, and really not a bad actor at the end of the day.

My conclusion is that this film is more challenging and abrasive than any horror you've yet seen, and it takes a stronger being who is prepared to explore this topic brutally, without having it painted in a soft light, and for its honesty I must give it full credit.
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